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Teng, Feng – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This empirical study explores metacognition and its relationship with writing performance. Through multivariate analyses, the study investigates the role of metacognitive knowledge and regulation in mediating writing performance. Participants were 882 students from eight universities in China who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL).…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Management, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zhu, Xinhua; Yao, Yuan; Pang, Wanru; Zhu, Siyu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Existing studies on L2 motivation have established a significant association between ideal self, learning engagement, and academic achievement, but few have examined the internal relationships between these variables in the L2 writing domain. In addition, students' linguistic competence, a fundamental element of writing achievement, remains…
Descriptors: Correlation, Linguistic Competence, Learning Motivation, Writing Achievement
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Wu, Shuang; Quentin Dixon, L.; Sun, Haitao; Zhang, Peng – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the relationship between developing writer's vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, and writing abilities. Participants were EFL Chinese junior-high students, of whom there were 120 Grade 8 and 147 Grade 9 students. Measures included tests of vocabulary size, word association, and morphological awareness. Students' writing…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, English (Second Language)
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Yang, Chengsong; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Parr, Judy M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The reactivity of think-alouds (TAs) (i.e., their effects on thinking) has remained an inevitable concern whenever their use is considered or evaluated. This paper reports findings from a study that involved 85 Chinese sophomores, who, having received some instruction in diction, and then written a narrative in English as a baseline task,…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Writing Research, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
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Yang, Gang; Chen, Yu-Ting; Zheng, Xiao-Li; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Due to the lack of life experience and situational experience, it is difficult to arouse pupils' inner motivation and interest in writing. Therefore, the early stage of Chinese writing may be a challenge for Chinese pupils. In order to solve this problem, a spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR) experience learning system was developed to…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Video Technology, Descriptive Writing, Writing Achievement
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Shi, Guimin; Yang, Sheng; Liu, Changyong; Meng, Shimin; Luo, Zhiming; Li, Shaozi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2020
In this article, a cognitive framework for observing learning activities based on human-computer coupling is proposed. The observation is based on the vectorization of a learning situation along with human-computer interaction factors. An evolutionary high-dimensional topology of learning cognitive flow is introduced for human-computer…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Observation, Cognitive Structures, Interaction
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Yao, Chunlin – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
The study uses a pre-test, post-test experimental randomised control group design to examine the effects of a blended learning environment on Chinese adult learners' English acquisition. At the initial stage the study constructed a blended learning environment composed of three parts: task-based online learning, group-based peer learning and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Adult Students, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
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Liu, Xiongyi; Li, Lan; Zhang, Zhihong – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of online assessment training, with synchronous group discussion as a key component, on subsequent web-based peer assessment results. Participants included 81 college students, mostly women, taking a business writing class. After initial submission of a draft counter-offer letter, they completed…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Group Discussion, Instructional Effectiveness, Business Communication
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Lin, Lijing – English Language Teaching, 2020
In the second language acquisition domain, researchers have devoted tremendous efforts to studying the relationship between L2 learning and some socio-affective factors, such as anxiety, motivation, etc. However, little research has been done to examine whether and how perfectionism, a psychological trait, affects L2 learning and L2 performance.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Achievement, Correlation
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Zhang, Xin; McEneaney, John E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Enhancing writing pedagogy in university-based courses for students of English as a foreign language has been a long-term goal of educators and researchers. Most recent work, however, has relied on qualitative methodologies that limit our capacity to generalize findings. In this quantitative study, the authors adopted a quasi-experimental control…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Authors
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Teng, Lin Sophie; Sun, Peijian Paul; Xu, Linlin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study was designed to validate a multidimensional structure of writing self-efficacy in English as a foreign language contexts, conceptualized in self-regulated learning theory and social cognitive theory. The Second Language Writer Self-Efficacy Scale was developed and evaluated through a series of rigorous validation procedures. The…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Structural Equation Models
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Sang, Yuan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This research synthesis collected, compiled, and analyzed 29 academic research articles that were published in China in recent years. It addressed and explored the issues in Chinese undergraduate students' English writing and the possible reasons causing and/or explaining the issues. It was discovered that many Chinese undergraduate students have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, College Second Language Programs
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Jiang, Dongmei – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning on writing anxiety alleviation through a pre-test/post-test assessment. 120 EFL learners from a Chinese polytechnic institute were assigned into two groups: one experimental (cooperative writing) and the other comparison (solitary writing). Results revealed that cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Zhao, Ke; Chan, Carol K. K. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to design and examine a computer-supported knowledge-building environment and to investigate both collective knowledge-building dynamics and individual learning in the context of a tertiary education course in mainland China. The participants were 102 students in four intact Year-one tertiary business classes. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Level, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Shao, KaiQi; Yu, WeiHua; Ji, ZhongMin – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
The aim of this study was threefold: (1) to further examine the possibility of using literature-based activities to raise EFL students' emotional intelligence (hereafter EI) and (2) to see whether there is any relationship between students' EI and writing achievement, in addition (3) to shed light on the implementation of such activities into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Emotional Intelligence, Writing Achievement
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